Lot 3110

Description

Italy, Sicily, Carlo di Borbone, (1734-1759), silver tari 1739, obv. CAR D G SIC REX, bust laureate to right, rev. around FAV COR AN, F N acrossm crowned eagle facing head left, below 1739, (KM.5.5 rare) (Illustrated); another silver half tari 1751, Palerno mint, obv. laureate bust right, CAR D G SIC ET HIE/S F, rev. facing eagle head left, around RE - SI - ET - HI, 1751. (Spahr 140, MIR 582, KM.5.3b rare) illustrated; others of Charles II (1665-1700), AE grano 1699 (Eklund 394); AE 3 cavalli (Eklund 393); Victor Amadeus II (of Savoy), AE tornese Palerno mint, 1716, 1717 (illustrated, Ex Heyde Collection, Geoff K. Gray Sale 30 December 7, 1973 [lot 889 part] 1718, (Eklund 399). Very good - good very fine. (7)

Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, previously from B.A. Seaby November 1965, Geoff K. Gray Sale 30 lot 889 [4 coins]; W. Fleming 1973 and Coin Trends 1991.